Logical Berries

There is a jar in which there are two types of candies.
20 blueberries and 16 strawberries. You perform the following steps:
1) You take out two candies.
2) If the two candies are of the same flavour, you add a blueberry one otherwise, you add the strawberry one.

You repeat these two steps till there is just one candy remaining in the jar. Which flavoured candy will be left?




Similar Riddles

At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.

There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour, red, green, blue and yellow. Each friend owned two boats. No friend had two boats of the same colour.

Alan didn't have a yellow boat. Brian didn't have a red boat but did have a green one. One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat and another friend had a green boat and a blue boat. Charles had a yellow boat. Darren had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.

Can you work out which friend had which coloured boats?

Asked by Neha on 15 Jan 2024


John enters a small room. The Door Closes.
When the door opens, John is in a larger room.

Explain?

Asked by Neha on 14 Mar 2026

Two guards were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?"

How did he know his companion was smiling?

Asked by Neha on 24 Apr 2022


What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

Asked by Neha on 03 Nov 2025

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

Asked by Neha on 24 Sep 2023

what's the probability of getting a king or a queen from a pack of 52 cards?

Asked by Neha on 27 Sep 2024


How can a man go eight days without sleep?

Asked by Neha on 11 Mar 2024

What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Asked by Neha on 17 Sep 2021

Can you complete the sequence?

192, 021, 222, 324, 252, 627, 2__, 9__?

Asked by Neha on 07 Nov 2025


How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?

Asked by Neha on 12 Mar 2022

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Crossword puzzles

In the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.